![Louisiana Supreme Court gives ‘duty to defend’ new meaning for insurance lawyers](https://uphelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/businessreport.jpg)
![Louisiana Supreme Court gives ‘duty to defend’ new meaning for insurance lawyers](https://uphelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/businessreport.jpg)
For decades, Louisiana law maintained that—under standard language found in most commercial general liability policies—insurers who had a duty to defend their policyholders must defend the entire lawsuit, including in long-latency cases. In other words, your defense attorney was on the case—at the insurance company’s…